From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pstricks in org-mode?
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:57:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B7F68D18-40B2-4904-942F-258B6CEB7710@gmail.com> (raw)
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On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira wrote:
>
> Even graphics made in tikz, that does not use postscript commands,
> do not appear
> in DVI viewers. I haven't used the preview-latex with graphics in
> AucTeX, but if
> it is able to view graphics made with pstricks, as it appears to be
> the case,
> then maybe it is better to first investigate how preview-latex is
> able to do
> this before searching for options to pass to dvipng in org-mode.
>
> IMHO it would be even better if it was possible to use the original
> preview-latex from AucTeX instead of reinventing the wheel.
:-) I'd be happy to accept a patch!
- Carsten
>
> Darlan
>
>
> PS: Please, when answering E-Mails do not forget to also CC to the
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> mailing list.
>
>
>
> At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:28:37 +0200,
> Johan Ekh wrote:
>>
>> [1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
>> Thanks for sharing with me! Your setup seems to give a good
>> workflow. Before
>> starting to use org-mode I worked with my
>> graphics in emacs using the preview facility in AucTeX. Thus I
>> could develop
>> my picture and easily update the
>> preview to see the effect of my last edit.
>>
>> Since starting to use org-mode I find that I have it open all the
>> time and
>> would like to include it as much as possible
>> in my work flow. Many of my pictures share some content and it
>> would be nice
>> to develop some "templates" that
>> I can start with when I do my pictures. Pstricks is postscript and
>> usually
>> do not display in dvi viewers. This is
>> probably why dvipng doesn't work.
>>
>> Is there any way I can manipulate org-modes route to a png preview
>> picture?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Johan
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> From the documentation it seems that org-mode uses dvipng.
>>> [[info:org:LaTeX%20fragments][info:org:LaTeX fragments]]
>>> But I don't know how it behaves with pstricks.
>>>
>>> I usually create the graphics in a separated file when I'm working
>>> with
>>> latex. It's a complete latex file with the necessary preamble that
>>> will be
>>> later turned into comments when I'm finished and want to actually
>>> include
>>> the
>>> graphic in my document. (using \input{graphic.tex})
>>>
>>> When I'm working on it, Emacs occupies half of my screen (or more)
>>> and
>>> evince
>>> occupies the other half. Whenever I compile the document (using
>>> pdflatex
>>> since I
>>> use tikz to draw graphics) the pdf is automatically reloaded by
>>> evince.
>>> Since I
>>> don't rely on the preview-latex for developing the graphics I
>>> don't know if
>>> it
>>> works with tikz. I guess I'll give it a try.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I tried with the simple example
>>> ,----
>>> | \begin{tikzpicture}
>>> | \draw (0,0) -- (1,1);
>>> | \end{tikzpicture}
>>> `----
>>> and it does not work. Only a little square is show in the Emacs
>>> buffer.
>>> Well,
>>> this is expected since the package tikz is not included in the
>>> temporary
>>> .tex
>>> file (and neither is pstricks as I could see).
>>>
>>> After included the usepackage{tikz} in org-format-latex-header the
>>> preview
>>> is
>>> "created". However nothing is show, since the graphic generated by
>>> tikz
>>> (and
>>> pstricks) is not present at the DVI stage.
>>>
>>> This seems to be a limitation of dvipng and not org-mode.
>>>
>>> Darlan
>>>
>>>
>>> At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:53:54 +0200,
>>> Johan Ekh wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [1.1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
>>>> But is pdflatex also used for rendering the previews in emacs?
>>>> The most
>>>> convenient thing for me would
>>>> be to see the preview while I am developing the picture and then
>>>> as a
>>> last
>>>> step export it to my latex document.
>>>>
>>>> Do you this is possible somehow?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Johan
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <
>>> darcamo@gmail.com
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Remember that because pstricks use postscript commands it is
>>>>> necessary
>>> to
>>>>> take
>>>>> the long route in latex (latex->DVI->PS->PDF) instead of just
>>>>> using
>>>>> pdflatex. Therefore, if you put some pstricks code in the org-
>>>>> file and
>>>>> export to
>>>>> PDF to see the result then this is the reason, since the
>>>>> exporter seems
>>> to
>>>>> use
>>>>> pdflatex to process the generated .tex file (I'm assuming this,
>>>>> since I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> see any DVI or PS file created by the exporter).
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Darlan
>>>>>
>>>>> At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:52:33 +0200,
>>>>> Johan Ekh wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>]
>>>>>> [1.1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
>>>>>> It seems that I can use any latex package that I want except
>>>>>> for the
>>>>>> pstricks ones.
>>>>>> No picture is produced. No error message either. I load the same
>>> packages
>>>>>> and use the same
>>>>>> pstricks code that I have in a regular latex document (on the
>>>>>> same
>>>>> computer)
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> it works in that document.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> //Johan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks, I'll try it!
>>>>>>> /Johan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Carsten Dominik <
>>>>> carsten.dominik@gmail.com
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Johan Ekh wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>> I'm using org-mode to write LaTeX snippets that I later
>>>>>>>>> (usually)
>>>>>>>>> transfer into a separate latex document.
>>>>>>>>> Can I also write and preview pstricks code in org-mode?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Also, can I do "usepackage(xxx)" someway do use LaTeX
>>>>>>>>> extensions?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{pstricks}
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> or something along those lines.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> HTH
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - Carsten
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 22:30 pstricks in org-mode? Johan Ekh
2009-10-01 11:55 ` Carsten Dominik
[not found] ` <417457b50910011346o533328e6obcc5769295b214c6@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-02 12:52 ` Johan Ekh
2009-10-02 13:28 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-10-02 14:53 ` Johan Ekh
2009-10-02 18:34 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
[not found] ` <417457b50910030128s64c8c6ecu2bcb55b1a5f27bf1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-05 17:29 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-10-05 17:57 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-10-08 8:32 ` Johan Ekh
2009-10-08 10:25 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-08 14:55 ` Johan Ekh
2009-10-20 20:02 ` Johan Ekh
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